Released: February 17, 1978
Songwriter: Kate Bush
Producer: Andrew Powell
[Refrain]
Come up and be a kite
[Verse 1]
Beelzebub is aching in my belly-o
My feet are heavy and I'm rooted in my wellios
And I want to get away and go
I want to be
From all these mirror windows
I want to be home
I look at eye level, it isn't good enough
And then I find it out when I take a good look up
There's a hole in the sky with a big eyeball
There's a hole in the, there's a hole in the sky
Calling me
[Chorus]
Come up and be a kite
And fly a diamond night
A diamond kite, a diamond kite
Ooh, what a diamond!
A diamond kite on a diamond flight
Over the lights, under the moon
Over the lights, under the moon
Over the moon, over the moon
[Refrain]
Come up and be a kite
[Verse 2]
I feel a rush along my body, like a bullet
I'm 2D after a push-and-pull feeling
And I want to get back to safe home
I want to be
I love the homeland dome
I want to be home
I got no limbs, I'm like a feather on the wind
I'm not sure if I want to be up here at all
And I'd like to be back on the ground
I'd like to be, I'd like to be down
But I don't know how to get down-down-down
[Chorus]
Come up and be a kite
And fly a diamond night
A diamond kite, a diamond kite
Ooh, what a diamond!
A diamond kite on a diamond flight
Over the lights, under the moon
Over the lights, under the moon
Over the moon, over the moon
[Refrain]
Come up and be a kite
Come up and be a kite
Come up and be a kite
[Verse 1]
Beelzebub is aching in my belly-o
My feet are heavy and I'm rooted in my wellios
And I want to get away and go
I want to be
From all these mirror windows
I want to be home
I look at eye level, it isn't good enough
And then I find it out when I take a good look up
There's a hole in the sky with a big eyeball
There's a hole in the, there's a hole in the sky
Calling me
[Chorus]
Come up and be a kite
And fly a diamond night
A diamond kite, a diamond kite
Ooh, what a diamond!
A diamond kite on a diamond flight
Over the lights, under the moon
Over the lights, under the moon
Over the moon, over the moon
[Refrain]
Come up and be a kite
[Verse 2]
I feel a rush along my body, like a bullet
I'm 2D after a push-and-pull feeling
And I want to get back to safe home
I want to be
I love the homeland dome
I want to be home
I got no limbs, I'm like a feather on the wind
I'm not sure if I want to be up here at all
And I'd like to be back on the ground
I'd like to be, I'd like to be down
But I don't know how to get down-down-down
[Chorus]
Come up and be a kite
And fly a diamond night
A diamond kite, a diamond kite
Ooh, what a diamond!
A diamond kite on a diamond flight
Over the lights, under the moon
Over the lights, under the moon
Over the moon, over the moon
[Refrain]
Come up and be a kite
Come up and be a kite
more tracks from the album
The Single File (1978 - 1983)
- Wuthering Heights
- Passing Through Air
- Un Baiser D’enfant
- Ran Tan Waltz
- December Will Be Magic Again
- The Empty Bullring
- Wow
- Fullhouse
- Coffee Homeground
- Breathing
- Them Heavy People (Live)
- Don’t Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake (Live)
- L’Amour Looks Something Like You (Live)
- Delius (Song of Summer)
- Lord of the Reedy River
- The Man with the Child in His Eyes
- Sat in Your Lap
- There Goes a Tenner
- Moving
- Kite
- Babooshka
- Army Dreamers
- The Dreaming
- Warm and Soothing
- Hammer Horror
- James and the Cold Gun (Live)
- Ne T’enfuis Pas
- Dreamtime
From the albums
- The Kick Inside (1978)
- The Single File (1978 - 1983) (1984)
Kate Bush popular songs
- Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)
- Wuthering Heights
- Babooshka
- This Woman’s Work
- Cloudbusting
- Hounds of Love
- Waking the Witch
- Suspended in Gaffa
- And Dream of Sheep
- Army Dreamers
- Hello Earth
- Jig of Life
- The Sensual World
- Watching You Without Me
- Sat in Your Lap
- Get Out of My House
- The Big Sky
- The Dreaming
- The Man with the Child in His Eyes
- The Morning Fog
- Mother Stands for Comfort
- Breathing
- Pull Out the Pin
- Under Ice